Brine
80 × 40 × 4.5 Inches, Acrylic & Silica Dust on Linen - 2025
I remember the salt before the sea.
The taste of origin—
sharp, mineral, alive.
Light bends through water,
touch finds resistance,
and the world shimmers between forms.
What dissolves does not vanish;
it lingers, crystalline,
layered into what endures.
Each tide leaves its trace—
a pale film, a glint,
the body of water made visible in absence.
I am both drift and residue,
movement and memory,
the salt that remains when the wave recedes.
Collector Notes:
Brine explores the material poetry of salt and sea—how the elements shape, erode, and preserve in equal measure. Created with acrylic paint and silica dust on linen, the surface shimmers like sediment under light, dense and delicate at once. The texture evokes mineral deposits, coral formations, and the quiet turbulence of the ocean floor. Across its expanse, layers of blue-gray and white suggest the slow choreography of water meeting stone, the body of the earth dissolving into its own memory. The work captures that suspended moment between movement and crystallization—the stillness that follows a tide, when residue gleams like revelation.
80 × 40 × 4.5 Inches, Acrylic & Silica Dust on Linen - 2025
I remember the salt before the sea.
The taste of origin—
sharp, mineral, alive.
Light bends through water,
touch finds resistance,
and the world shimmers between forms.
What dissolves does not vanish;
it lingers, crystalline,
layered into what endures.
Each tide leaves its trace—
a pale film, a glint,
the body of water made visible in absence.
I am both drift and residue,
movement and memory,
the salt that remains when the wave recedes.
Collector Notes:
Brine explores the material poetry of salt and sea—how the elements shape, erode, and preserve in equal measure. Created with acrylic paint and silica dust on linen, the surface shimmers like sediment under light, dense and delicate at once. The texture evokes mineral deposits, coral formations, and the quiet turbulence of the ocean floor. Across its expanse, layers of blue-gray and white suggest the slow choreography of water meeting stone, the body of the earth dissolving into its own memory. The work captures that suspended moment between movement and crystallization—the stillness that follows a tide, when residue gleams like revelation.